Caltech: Gain and loss in optimistic versus pessimistic brains
Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 03:42
in Psychology & Sociology
Our belief as to whether we will likely succeed or fail at a given task - and the consequences of winning or losing - directly affects the levels of neural effort put forth in movement-planning circuits in the human cortex, according to a new brain-imaging study by neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)...